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Originally posted by Paul Markham@Oct 14 2003, 03:08 AM
What it also does is bring into the forum of what exactly did Acacia do for there Prior Art research.
Isn't that one of the things that they are being sued for, refusing to reveal what they found. Who knows if they did not do their research properly we can sue them into a section 11. 
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my understanding is that they aquired the patent through a company they aquired. they are saying that the original filer did his "research"
i think this is going to implode anyway. its just a question of time. there is no friendly way to enforce this patent... especially a really flimsy one that is making everyone say "what the fuck!?!?!" and no big mainstream company like Microsoft and AOL/Time Warner is likely to just say "ok". Additionally, when those companies take a stand and take it to the press, Acacia would be fucked anyway.
if their case was so strong... they would just tell people to pay... they would not be wasting time trying to get porn companies to pay a tolken amount just to say they have "licensing agreements" in place.